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The Father of the Man
In the depth of the Great Depression, Mika Murakami had a baby boy that she had to give up. There was something wrong with him that wasn’t immediately obvious to the untrained eye. He was impure; tainted with the blood of his father, who had left Mika to find work and never returned, and worse [...]
Manzanar
Armen walked out to the pumps and pulled a bag out of the nearest trash can. A car pulled up to a pump, and an Asian man stepped out. Armen put the full bag into the big can and wheeled it back to the garage while the man walked into the mini mart. Armen followed [...]
The Seeker
Soundtrack: The Who, The Seeker (Edit) Armen began to notice something peculiar about Los Angeles. There were plants everywhere—beautiful plants in a myriad varieties. He soon took to exploring that botanical variety, and he even took to collecting samples. There were lawns everywhere, and all kinds of flowers, shrubs, and trees. Everywhere he went, he [...]
The Trail
The thought of fishing for this uncommon, threatened species of fish in this newly conceived wilderness enticed Armen, and he set off immediately to recruit Sam, which he had little difficulty in doing. Armen did more searching through the library, and found a few references to an old trail that crossed golden trout country. The [...]
The Falconer
Armen got a toy bow for Christmas. He never quite got the hang of the bow, so he just let Cindy play with it. Mr. and Mrs. Adroushan soon realized that Cindy would make good use of a proper bow. She spent hours upon hours with that bow, and before long she was a feature [...]
The white cones of Mount Ararat and Little Ararat cut into a blue Armenian sky, suspended on the wall above Cindy Adroushan’s bed. There she lay silent and warm under her grandmother’s coverlet of Armenian lace. Her mother’s shadow lay across her, with the ambient light from the hallway drawn out in a folded and [...]